Excerpt from Lecture Introductory to the Course of Institutes and Practice of Medicine in the Medical College of the State of South Carolina Each of you, it is to be presumed from your presence here - each one of you has set before him as his special aim, the acquisition of the knowledge essential to the Medical Practitioner; each one desires to become an expert, competent, and scientific Physician. I know not how I can better employ this first hour of intercourse with vou than in an earnest endeavour to point out to you the best and most efficient means of attainment of this end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Lecture, Introductory to the Course on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, in the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College: Session of 1846-47 Then, what is life I begin my answer to this question by propounding-another, viz., what is not life and by venturing, in answer, to say that it is inorganic matter. Inorganic matter is not life. This position may require some elucidation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Lecture Introductory to the Course of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College, Philadelphia: For the Session 1844-45 Gentlemen! You have come prepared to receive medical instruction. - Will you receive it from us i - Shall we have the honour and pleasure of becoming your teachers - Another question of more importance - What inducements can we, ought we, to offer you? There are other teachers - those not only in the other schools of Philadelphia, and of Baltimore, and New York; but those also in the schools of the farther north and south; and of the far West, - all with knowledge and capabilities - impelled by a zeal which shall secure pros perity - secure the advancement of American medicine - secure American co operation with the efforts of Europe to act better and better, more and more, the part of the good Samaritan, towards a diseased and suffering world. We are not unmindful of these considerations, nor of our relative responsibilities, and therefore we ask ourselves with the deepest solicitude, What inducements can the Faculty of the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College offer you? -what is the ground of confidence in ourselves -can we promise you no disappointment - none to your medical preceptor - your parent or guardian and above all, no disappointment to our suffering fellow-creatures. If, then, gentlemen, it shall be, that we are to become associated as pupils and teachers - to become, to each other, the givers and recipients of medical knowledge, until you receive the seal and parchments of this Institution, and become physicians, - physicians who will take honourable and useful posts in various sections of our country; or become the soldier's or the sailor's comfort; or a pioneer in heathen lands to battle with unchecked and aggravated disease. Or, indeed, quitting the duties of a physician, to apply your knowledge of or. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Six Introductory Lectures, to Courses of Lectures, Upon the Institutes and Practice of Medicine, Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania The following lectures are committed to the press, in consequence of promises: made to many of the members of? The classes who heard them, soon after their delivery. Some facts are added, some sentences are omitted, and a few remarks are repeated, in several of thelectures. The repetitions will be excused, when the reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Lecture Delivered at the Opening of the Medical Department of the Columbian College: Introductory to a Course on the Theory and Practice of Medicine It is strikingly observable of human agency, 'that the exercise of its powers exhibits extremes in contrast, and that those means which, properly used, confer the greatest bene factions on man, are susceptible of being prostituted to most destructive purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.